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Sorokin and Civilization

Author : Joseph B. Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351292625
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Sorokin and Civilization written by Joseph B. Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorokin and Civilization is a festschrift to Pitirim Sorokin, one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology and first president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC). He was a giant of the twentieth-century stage in the larger world as well. He debated with Trotsky, exchanged ideas with Pavlov, and received a personal invitation to meet with President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. His principled dissent from sociological orthodoxy frequently anticipated that of Charles Wright Mills, Alfred McClung Lee, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was, to paraphrase Joseph Ford, a scholar among statesmen and a statesman among scholars. The volume is divided into four parts: "A Life Remembered"; "Sorokin as Gadfly"; "Sorokin's Methodology"; and, "Applying Sorokin's Theories." Contributors and chapters to this volume include: "Sorokin's Life and Work" by Barry V. Johnston; "The Sorokin-Merton Correspondence on Puritanism, Pietism, and Science" by Robert K. Merton; "Sorokin and American Sociology: The Dynamics of a Moral Career in Science" by Lawrence T. Nichols; "Sorokin as Dialectician" by Robert C. Hanson; "Applying Sorokin's Typology" by Michel P. Richard; and "Transitions, Revolutions, and Wars" by William Eckhardt. Sorokin and Civilization will appeal to all those with an interest in cultural and historical processes and the life and theories of Sorokin.

History, Civilization, and Culture

Author : Frank Richard Cowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History, Civilization, and Culture written by Frank Richard Cowell and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civilizations and World Systems

Author : Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761991052
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Civilizations and World Systems written by Stephen K. Sanderson and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading figures in the fields of civilizational studies and sociology and political science join to compare and contrast their assumptions and conclusions about broad-scale social and historical change.

The Warcraft Civilization

Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262288370
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Warcraft Civilization written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft as a virtual prototype of the real human future. World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning hand, no princess to be rescued. WoW is an immersive virtual world in which characters must cope in a dangerous environment, assume identities, struggle to understand and communicate, learn to use technology, and compete for dwindling resources. Beyond the fantasy and science fiction details, as many have noted, it’s not entirely unlike today’s world. In The Warcraft Civilization, sociologist William Sims Bainbridge goes further, arguing that WoW can be seen not only as an allegory of today but also as a virtual prototype of tomorrow, of a real human future in which tribe-like groups will engage in combat over declining natural resources, build temporary alliances on the basis of mutual self-interest, and seek a set of values that transcend the need for war. What makes WoW an especially good place to look for insights about Western civilization, Bainbridge says, is that it bridges past and future. It is founded on Western cultural tradition, yet aimed toward the virtual worlds we could create in times to come.

The Basic Trends of Our Times

Author : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780808400585
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Basic Trends of Our Times written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1964 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Social and Cultural Dynamics

Author : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780878557875
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Social and Cultural Dynamics written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1957 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before World War II. This revised version, written some twenty years later, reflects a postwar environment. Earlier than most, Sorokin took the consequences of the breakdown of colonialism into account in discussing the renaissance of the great cultures of African and Asian civilization. Other than perhaps F.S.C. Northrop, no individual better incorporated the new role of the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic peoples in this postwar world. Sorokin came to view social and cultural dynamics in terms of three major processes: a major shift of mankind's creative center from Europe to the Pacific; a progressive disintegration of the sensate culture; and finally the first blush of the emergence and growth of a new idealistic sociocultural order. This volume is perhaps most famous for revealing Sorokin's remarkable efforts to understand the relationship of war and peace to the process of social and political change. Contrary to received wisdom, he shows that the magnitude and depth of war grows in periods of social, cultural, and territorial expansion by the nation. In short, war is just as often a function of development as it is of social decay. This long-unavailable volume remains one of the major touchstones by which we can judge efforts to create an international social science. There are few areas of social or cultural life that are not covered--from painting, art, and music, to the ethos of universalism and particularism. These are terms which Sorokin introduced into the literature long before the rise of functional doctrines. For all those interested in cultural and historical processes, this volume provides the essence of Sorokin's remarkably prescient effort to achieve sociological transcendence, by taking seriously the place of spiritual beliefs in the structure of societies.

World Civilizations And History Of Human Development

Author : Robert Holton
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1848262132
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book World Civilizations And History Of Human Development written by Robert Holton and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Civilizations and History of Human Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. The Theme on World Civilizations and History of Human Development discusses the essential aspects such as Civilizational Analysis: A Paradigm in the Making; The European Civilizational Constellation: A Historical Sociology, African Civilizations: From the Pre-colonial to the Modern Day; Industrial Civilization; Global Civilization - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Islamic Civilizations; War, Peace And Civilizations; History: The Meaning and Role of History in Human Development; Role of Human Societies in the History of The Biosphere; Environmentalism; Role of Gender and Family Identities in Human History; Modern Approaches to the Teaching of History; Developing Dialogues: The Value of Oral History; Historical Knowledge. Nature and Man: Orientations to Historical Time; Big History This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Iconic Ideas in the History of Social Thought

Author : Wsevolod W. Isajiw
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460281535
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Iconic Ideas in the History of Social Thought written by Wsevolod W. Isajiw and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book distinguishes a number of types of social thought and traces their history from “tribal” times until present day. It shows that human beings thought systematically about their societies very early in their development, even if only informally, as they did not write treatises about them. In many ways, they formed a basis for all social thought that followed. The book discusses the social thought of ancient civilizations and talks about how the rationalism of Greek and Roman times and the religiosity of early and later Christianity influenced its development. The book then explains the influence of the Reformation, the change of the intellectual climate and the emergence of new approaches to the discussion about the nature of society. It talks about the theorists who argued that societies were created by social contract among people and some, like the colorful Robert Owen, advised that we should learn by doing. He tried to establish two colonies in which people would work and live together and share the products of their work among all in the colony. This was a benign socialist idea. It did not work. But soon the aggressive socialism of Karl Marx and his followers emerged. A strong trend emerged in the meantime for the scientific study of society, employing all the methods of the natural sciences. Sociology as a professional discipline thus developed. An issue emerged whether society is just a congregation of individuals or has a reality of its own. Differences among scholars emerged with American sociologists favoring individualistic sociology and Europeans favoring the reality of society approach. But the contest was crowned by Max Weber, whom some consider to be the greatest sociologist who ever lived, and his “analytical” and “verstehende” sociology. The field of sociology has spread out widely into various specializations. The book also studies popular social thought. It briefly describes Islamic social thought, looks at popular thought in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, and current American popular thought. It ends by discussing the future of social thought.

Style and Civilizations

Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style and Civilizations written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture and Politics

Author : Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317155971
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Politics written by Jan-Erik Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. Combining a substantial theoretical overview with intricate comparative empirical research, it assesses the complex interplay of ethnicity, religion, history and values on macro- and micro-level outcomes. Striking a judicious balance between the use of global data on the topic and their selection of six key in-depth country studies, the book draws extensively on statistical material and 'hard data' rather than the literary evidence usual in studies of this kind. This second edition of a well-established text has been expanded and fully updated in line with new events. More student-friendly, this volume now contains useful references for further reading and new material on ethnicity and religion. Readers will find that the values section is now more lucid. This clearly structured book's stringent approach to the topic and its readable, accessible style make this book one that no serious scholar or student of political culture should be without.

An Anthropologist Looks at History

Author : A. L. Kroeber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520333500
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book An Anthropologist Looks at History written by A. L. Kroeber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

Author : Bernard W. Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136048707
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture written by Bernard W. Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum of race, the issue of gender equality, and the perplexities of pan-Africanism.

Culture and Politics

Author : Lane Jan-Erik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000160769
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Politics written by Lane Jan-Erik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science, this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society.

Renewal

Author : Colbert Rhodes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761869425
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Renewal written by Colbert Rhodes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a deep look into the moral uncertainty in the contemporary social sciences and American society, this book explores an in-depth solution. This solution, as articulated by Pitirim A. Sorokin in the 20th century, is the theory of Integralism; a perspective dating back to Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas. Sorokin initially applied Integralism by locating and analyzing three dominant super socio-cultural systems over 2500 years of Graeco-Roman and Western history. Each super system was unified by a central philosophical principle based either on materialism (the senses), or the rational, or the supersensory/super-rational. A super system declines when it reaches the limits of its potential to achieve its true reality and value, to be replaced by another super system. Sorokin described a trendless rotation of the three super socio-cultural systems. The current dominant super socio-cultural system in the West is a materialist version emphasizing science and technology with little thought given to supersensory/super-rational reality. Sorokin asserted contemporary materialist culture was in a state of collapse due to the breakup of its moral values. As a consequence he saw a struggle for power occurring between egoistic individuals and groups often resulting in revolutions, wars and inter-human strife. In response to the one sided materialist view of reality the goal of Integralism is to unify all three forms of reality into an integral culture that harmoniously balances materialist and supersensory/super-rational orientations. A solution to the contemporary moral confusion, Sorokin argued, can be found in the application of supra-conscious intuition that would enable a human to know what is eternal in the ordinary and reach the transcendent; an experience not accessible to the senses or the rational intellect alone. The supra-conscious is the source for reaching the supreme moral value; creative unselfish altruism which can be shared by all cultures to produce peace and harmony in the world.

Alexei Khomiakov

Author : Artur Mrówczynski-Van Allen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0227177266
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Alexei Khomiakov written by Artur Mrówczynski-Van Allen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexei Khomiakov (1804-1860), a great Russian thinker, one of the founders of the Slavophile school of thought, nowadays might be seen as one of the precursors of critical thought on the dangers of modern political ideas. The pathologies that Khomiakov attributes to Catholicism and Protestantism - authoritarianism, individualism, and fragmentation - are today the fundamental characteristics of modern states, of the societies in which we live, and to a large extent, of the alternatives that are brought forth in an attempt to counter them. Khomiakov’s works therefore might help us take on the challenge of rescuing Christian thought from modern colonization and offer a true alternative, a space for love and truth, the living experience of the church. This book serves as a step on the path toward recovering the church’s reflection on its own identity as sobornost’, as the community that is the living body of Christ, and can be the next step forward toward recovering the capacity for thought from within the church.

Wealth, Energy, and Human Values

Author : Thomas P. Wallace
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438976283
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Wealth, Energy, and Human Values written by Thomas P. Wallace and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The degradation of the modern American culture, including its 2008 financial and economic crisis, and the modern rejuvenation of Asian cultures are best understood within the context of 4,000 years of human history. Such are the consequences of the dynamics of cultural change, responding to societal variables of wealth, energy, and human values. This work provides a unique and formidable science-based framework for civilization development that complements and enhances the work of preeminent historians and sociologists. Accordingly, the foundation for societal progress is placed on restrictive scientific definitions, principles, and concepts of energy and wealth consumption, rather than solely on behavioral perspectives derived from empirical data and historical events. Society's dynamic forces are linked to the cultural deterioration and collapse of Ancient Greece and Rome, Imperial Spain, and Great Britain. Specific chapters are devoted to stagnation of Western civilization, Asian and Islamic resurgence, deterioration of the American culture, and ecological degradation of North America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay; collateral damage of socio-economic profitability. The characteristics of America's current cultural deterioration parallel those of previous great civilizations. These include abuse of wealth and energy resources; excessive individual and national debt; lack of cultural civility, discipline, integrity, and ethics; unaffordable militarism, escalating income and wealth disparities; unresolved crises in health care and public education; and stultifying cultural complexity and bureaucracy. Themes include the underlying principles responsible for the eventual deterioration of all known civilizations; the basis for the recurring, sequential periodicity of civilization success and failure; and the roles and significance of militarism and religion in civilization growth, decay, and rebirth; Addressing these themes necessitates the integration of the academic disciplines of history, sociology, economics, and science, reflecting human nature and socioeconomic and political realities that fundamentally and continuously alter human values, priorities, and behavior, thus creating human history.

Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004266178
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology presents the current state of knowledge in comparative sociology for students, scholars, and the educated lay public. The major aim of comparative sociological research is to identify similarities and differences among societies, studying variation across both geographical regions and historical periods. This volume is divided into six broad categories: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Comparing Societies, Comparative Historical Sociology, Comparing Institutions and Social Structures, Comparing Social Processes, Comparing Nation States and World Regions, and Biographies of Exemplary Comparative Sociologists. Nearly 60 essays written by distinguished experts in their fields focus on the first five categories, while the biographical section contains forty biographies of both classical and contemporary sociologists who have made major contributions to comparative sociology. Contributors include: David Baker, Wenda Bauchspies, Hans-Peter Blossfield, Harriet Bradley, Sandra Buchholz, Miguel Centeno, Karen Cerulo, Brett Clark, Amy Corming, William D'Antonio, Mario Diani, Mattei Dogan, Riley Dunlap, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Mike Featherstone, Claude Fischer, Joshua Fishman, William Gamson, Julian Go, Jack Goldstone, Ralph Grillo, John Hall, Steve Hall, Robert Heiner, Joseph Hermanowicz, Margret Hornsteiner, David Johnson, Andrew Jorgenson, Jack Levy, Robert Marsh, Bill McCarthy, David Johnson, James Midgley, Peter Mohler, Linda Molm, Benjamin Moodie, Victor Nee, Anthony Orum, William Outhwaite, Anthony Pogorelc, Harland Prechel, Danielle Resnick, Glenn Robinson, Luis Roniger, Thomas Saalfeld, Stephen Sanderson, Michelle Sandhoff, Masamichi Sasaki, Saskia Sassen, Andrew Savchenko, Harald Schoen, Howard Schuman, David Segal, Michael Siemon, Tom Smith, Joonmo Son, Hendrik Spruyt, Robert Stebbins, George Steinmetz, Piotr Sztompka, Henry Teune, Arland Thornton, Kathleen Tierney, Jonathan Turner, Nicholas van de Walle, Henk Vinken, Veljko Vujačić, Erich Weede, Michel Wieviorka, Ekkart Zimmermann.